Gmail's "basic html view" sucks least at least for a lazy ass like me. I'm still waiting for the plan9 cloud 2.0 alternative though.
mail.google.com/mail/h/ 2011/4/9 Łukasz Pankowski <lukp...@o2.pl>: > Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 4/6/11, Hank D <hdon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The problem is that mutt sucks, too. >>> >> True. It can be configured to suck even less, though. But I want a >> minimalist alternative that's configured to suck less *at build time*. >> >>> If the default for a text-based MUA is not to just display text, >>> something's awry. >>> >> IMO, MUA should simply draw a list of messages to it's console, and >> simply pipe message contents through mailcap, for opening in another >> window, overwriting the message list or (if you're living in another >> century than I am) forwarding to a line printer producing a hardcopy. >> >> Mutt, on the other hand, sports a built in pager. Sucks. > > I use no suckless MUA (gnus + mairix) but from those two mairix is more > important: any MUA that does not integrate easily fast full text > filtering of messages is just unusable with today's tons of mails. > >